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...empress (Gong Li) is canoodling with her stepson, the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) is trying to poison the Empress, and the whole royal house seems less later Tang dynasty than Aaron Spelling's Dynasty. This gorgeous surprise from China's Zhang Yimou (Hero) looks like a martial-arts movie but plays like delirious melodrama. The fearless, peerless turns from Chow and Gong Li demonstrate how the fiercest swordplay can come from two charismatic stars staring daggers at each other...
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER The knives are out at the palace, and Gong Li is staring daggers. Chinese cinema's haughtiest diva plays a 10th century Empress who is having an affair with her stepson while, she suspects, her husband (Chow Yun Fat) is slowly poisoning her. That's just for appetizers in a menu of long-lost parents, eloping lovers and the minor distraction of a civil war out in the grand courtyard...
...Isang Yun, a South Korean composer, was arrested in 1967 and sentenced to death for alleged communist ties after he visited North Korea in order to organize concerts that would involve musicians from both countries. Yun was eventually released and lived in exile in Germany until his death...
...wrote that "performing the Isang Yun Cello Concerto with the Isang Yun Orchestra in the Isang Yun Concert Hall in North Korea would have been a priceless experience...
...biochemical sciences concentrator, wrote that he is "planning to hold a concert here at Harvard with an entirely-Yun program with a similar title, hopefully within a similar time period of the concert...